Official terrorism

faceless · admin Joined: 25 Apr 2006

I was just looking for more info about Galloway in Iran and found this. If you know any other stories that are state-sanctioned terrorism (by any country) please post them.

People mark the memory of their dead family members

On July 3, 1988, an Iranian commercial plane en route to Dubai from Bandar Abbas was hit by two missiles fired from the US Navy warship USS Vincennes, which claimed the lives of all on board 290 passengers, including 66 children, and crew.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

major.tom · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:09 pm Post subject:

I remember when this took place and was baffled at how they could mistake a passenger airliner for a fighter jet. One can only conclude it was intentional. Since they paid $62 mil without any admission of guilt, I guess that makes it ok.

faceless · admin Joined: 25 Apr 2006

yeah, that's the thing - that ship had the Aegis defence system. It's unbelievable that it was an accident. It was only a few months after the PA103 over Lockerbie notably.

The wiki page that I linked has some excellent information btw. It's not often I'd link there for something serious, but the detail is pretty impressive.

I wasn't actually aware of this as I was travelling about a lot at the time.

luke · Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Location: by the sea

imagine if it had been the other way round - america would have nuked iran!